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Issue connecting to internet BT4

Hey, I'm new here and new with BackTrack. I've used a ton of different linux distros in the past, but never really went all the way with them =/ I like trying different flavours :P

Anyways, for the last few days I've been working to get BackTrack 4 running on Virtual Box. I think I've been searching around for about a week and haven't really gotten anywhere. I'm trying to connect through a wired PPPoE connection. After running start-network it is telling me that I am connected to a wired network, and when I try to ping google's IP address, visit a website or download (apt-get) anything it attempts to but gets nowhere. Now, this isn't copy and paste... so bare with me. These are the results of ifconfig

Yes, I forgot to mention (sorry) I ran the first OS I saw (openSUSE) on my Virtual Box and it booted the internet immediately without me having to run anything and I was able to ping, browse etc. using the same settings as my BackTrack box

As for the routing, what exactly am I looking for to make sure it is proper and as for the DNS it looks as though that MIGHT be a problem, it looks like it is somehow set to my old ISP... I'm trying to figure out the nameserver and domain of my current one and see if that works...

Alright, so a little bit further in, I opened up SUSE again and did a route and checked the resolv.conf file.

The Route on SUSE sent back
10.0.2.2 with * as the gateway, 255.255.255.0 genmask with 0 metric
default with 10.0.2.2 as the gatway, 0.0.0.0 as the genmask with 0 metric
There was also link-local and loopback, don't know if they are important. * gateway and 255.255.0.0 and 255.0.0.0

The Route on BT4 sent back
192.168.1.103 * 255.255.255.0 with 202 Metric
default 102.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 with 202 metric

It depends on how you have the networking setup for your virtual machine.

In NAT mode for example, the DNS server and default route (the route for network 0.0.0.0) will point to an IP address within the private network setup by VirtualBox for NAT. If you are in bridged mode they should point to the same addresses as your VirtualBox host.

Check what your OpenSUSE virtual machine was set to and ensure the same is set for BackTrack.

Capitalisation is important. It's the difference between "Helping your brother Jack off a horse" and "Helping your brother jack off a horse".

Well, I did the command sudo route add default gw 10.0.2.2 and with eth0 on the end and it responds with SIOCADDRT: No such process

But eth0 WAS working, on SUSE and it looked like it was being picked up by BT4. I've been looking around but it seems everything is for wireless or sends out more errors than I'm getting... Any ideas? Thanks in advance